Click onto the specialist areas below to find out more about our expertise:

• Commercial leasing
• Funding
• Health sector
• Housing developments
• Innovative property schemes
• Retail and leisure schemes
• Urban regeneration
• property litigation

We have particular technical expertise in:-

Business tenancies

• Advising on heads of terms
• Negotiating leases
• Lease renewals
• Rent reviews
• Landlord and Tenant disputes

Portfolio management

• Strategic advice on property portfolio management
• Disposal of surplus estate
• Variation of leases
• Licences to alter
• Refinancing

Acquisitions and disposals

• The acquisition of freehold and leasehold land
• Sale of land for development
• Options and rights of pre-emption

Secured lending, property finance and tax

• Acquisition finance
• Project finance
• Development finance
• Syndicated facilities
• Property tax – VAT and stamp duty land tax
• Capital allowances
• Recoveries

Construction, development and engineering

• Development agreements
• Building contracts
• Amendments to standard forms of contract eg JCT, ICE, NEC 2 & 3, FIDIC, PPC 2000
• Procurement including PFI LIFT, innovative collaborations, partnering schemes and supply change management
• Warranties, bonds, guarantees
• Facilities management contracts
• Defects and associated issues
• CDM expertise
• Health and safety advice

Town and country planning and environmental law

• Planning due diligence
• Planning applications and appeals
• Planning agreements
• Compulsory purchase
• Highways
• Infrastructure agreements
• Contaminated land
• Water pollution
• Environmental assessment
• Nature conservation
• Waste management
• Occupational health and safety